ITunes Match- deleting Library from PC

Recently purchased ITunes Match and my thoughts so far are quite favourable. That being said it's not without it's faults and glitches.
Need some advice on a problem I have encountered. Not a techophobe so please be gentle.
After sending all my music files to the iCloud I presumed that I could delete my music library from my pc. Not from iTunes but 'music' folder on Pc (windows vista) to create some space.
On deleting some of the music went back into ITunes to play some of the removed songs. They are still in iCloud / ITunes but have an exclamation mark attached to them at left hand side. When I press to play them comes up with a pop up box saying that it ' can't find file, would you like to find it.
I thought one of the benefits of the match service is that you can release space on your pc by deleting music files or am I missing something. The files in question have the cloud symbol next to them so they are definitely in ICloud. This is not a problem on any iOS devices. Just my Pc.
I read one thread about this saying that if you can set up another iTunes account by pressing the shift key on iTunes start up. Did this and the songs rectified themselves and could stream them however when I added new content to new iTunes account and deleted file from PC same problem occurred.
I must be doing something wrong. Any advice appreciated.
****Also how easy is it to change album art in iCloud as a Lot of the art has dissapeared or been replaced by wrong album covers
Thanks

Just highlight all of the songs with the exclamation point and DO NOT CHECK THE BOX THAT SAYS DELETE FROM ICLOUD TOO.
I REPEAT TO DO PRESS THE BOX THAT SAYS DELETE FROM ICLOUD TOO.
As robeet said do one song first.
Just delete from your library.
When you have done that you will see little clouds besides all your songs and you can then download them again and BACK IT UP TO A HARD DRIVE.
I'm not being hard, but is is really important that you pay attention to the caps words. If you check that box that says to delete from icloud then you will permanetly delete your stuff from the cloud and you will not have anything.
After you redownload your music, I would strongly recomment that you store a back up on an external hard drive so that if anything happens to the cloud you will have a back up.
That is what I would do.
Or you could create another library by quitting itunes. Hold down the alt key and click the itunes icon again. Keep holding the alt key until a dialog box shows up and you can create a new library.
Create a new library and then sign into itunes match by going to store>turn on itunes match and sign in and you will see all of your music that is in the cloud begin to show up and you can then download them again from there.
As far as the artwork you can hightlight an album and then righ click and press get album artwork, or you can find the album artwork on google images, just try to get at least 300X300 perferably 500/X500 or 600X600 and then highlight the album or or song and right click and get info and if it is more than one song you will see a little box in the bottom right corner that has album artwork under it. Double click that and go to where you stored the picture you saved and click on the picture and press open or ok whichever it is. If it is just one song there will be an artwork tab that you can press the add button and locate your file and do the same thing.
I would try right click and pressing get album artwork first. Sometimes it will get the wrong artwork if you metadata does not match what is exactly in the itunes store. It can be a real pain.

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